Activities

WAC is listed as an “endorser” of the 2016 Women’s Boat to Gaza, which claims that Israel has “launched countless attacks against the besieged population, turning their life into a nightmare.”

On February 4, 2016, Naila Ayesh, former General Director of WAC, signed a statement declaring support for “Palestinian feminists living under Israel’s system of colonial and racist oppression.”

Participates in discriminatory campaigns such as “Love in the Time of Apartheid Campaign: The Palestinian Campaign for Repealing Israel’s Racist Law Denying Family Reunification.”

Allegations of “War Crimes”

In February 2015, WAC organized a photo exhibition called “A Witness to the Age,” to display “scenes from the latest Israeli offensive on Gaza in 2014.” WAC Director Amal Syam stated that “these photographs are not the only witness to the crimes of the occupation, every drop of blood spilled on this earth and the lives of the martyrs and the destruction caused by the Israeli military machinery in the whole regions in Gaza is the biggest proof for the crimes that the occupation practiced against the unarmed civilians.”

Following the 2014 Gaza war, WAC called for the International Criminal Court to prosecute the “Israeli occupation” for “war crimes.”

Following the 2012 Gaza war, WAC published a “selection of stories” under the headline “Women in confrontation with Israeli occupation” and claiming to document Israel’s “inhumane face” and “the truth about the war crimes the occupation forces had committed during the eight days of the assault.”

In a statement about the 2009 Gaza war, WAC claimed that the “war has affected everything without taking the lives of the civilians and their safety into consideration.” WAC alleged that it “witnessed the civilians when being killed by the Israeli army especially the women and children.” WAC called the war “brutal” and demands “trying Israel in a military court to punish Israel for being war criminal [sic].”

BDS

On March 8, 2016, WAC was a signatory to the “Palestinian Women’s Call for Worldwide Women’s Endorsement of BDS,” which called on women and feminists to join BDS campaigns, as “the Israeli regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid has for decades denied the Palestinian people our inalienable right to self-determination.”

In May 2005 signed a petition calling for the academic boycott of Israel as a means to “isolate Apartheid Israel…forging effective solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, self-determination and sovereignty.”

Partners

WAC partners with Trocaire. In September 2016, Trocaire and WAC completed a project that claims to “promote[] women’s rights and combat[] gender-based violence in the Gaza Strip.”